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Show WHEN ROYALTY VISITS US Writer Recalls Sundry Times When Various Exalted Persons Failed to Disturb Our Composure. Writing on the visit of the Con naughts to New York, F. D. Dunne In the Metropolitan Magazine says: "Other royal personages have looked us over in the past. The late king of England came to America before the war and must have been extremely active ac-tive on his feet for at least 10.000 old ladies are still alive who danced with him. Princess Louise we always al-ways remember with respect as the first person who had the courage to speak out against the filth and Indecency In-decency of the American sleeping car of the time. We had Dom Pedro of Brazil with us for awhile. Ten years ago we were favored with the presence pres-ence of Prince Henry of Prussia. Long before that came the king of the Sandwich Islands, an agreeable brown potentate with a taste for drawing to Inside straights It is so long ago that we can't recall whether the ladies of New Ycrk made themselves agreeable to him In the historic manner man-ner or the Cannibal islands by asking ask-ing him in to pick an acquaintance with them, but It is a fact of history that the proprietor of a hotel In Chicago Chi-cago did meet him at the door and in quire whether he wouldn't 'like to go to his room and wash up." Under all these honors, as far as we are informed, in-formed, the American public bore Itself It-self with some degree of composure, but the arrival of the duke on a purely pure-ly social visit was too much for the pent-up aristocratic emotions of all sections sec-tions of the population, and they received re-ceived him with as great a show of fealty as though he were the reigning prince and they his sworn subjects." |